September 18th, 1980

Born on September 18th, 1980

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 15,000 days old!

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What happened on September 18th, 1980?

September 18th, 1980

Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_38

What else happened on September 18th?

September 18th, 2001

Five letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to various media outlets in the United States.

September 18th, 1961

An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others on board.

September 18th, 1948

The Australian cricket team's Invincibles tour of England concluded; they had played 34 matches, including five Tests, without defeat.

September 18th, 1918

World War I: The Central Powers' defeat at the Battle of Dobro Pole played a role in the Bulgarian withdrawal from the war and led to the subsequent liberation of Vardar Macedonia.

September 18th, 1895

Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment, on deaf janitor Harvey Lillard.

September 18th, 1879

The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.

September 18th, 1875

The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.

September 18th, 1873

Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.

September 18th, 1870

Nathaniel P. Langford of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition first observed a geyser in the Wyoming Territory erupting at regular intervals, naming it Old Faithful (video featured).

September 18th, 1851

The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, was founded.

September 18th, 1850

The United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, decreeing that all escaped slaves be brought back to their masters.

September 18th, 1809

The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.

September 18th, 1048

Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Byzantine forces defeated their Seljuk opponents in the flanks of the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, but learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre the next morning.

September 18th, 0324

Constantine the Great decisively defeated Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire and ending the Tetrarchy.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 18th

Born on September 18th, 1980

43

Carolin Hingst

German pole vaulter

*September 18th, 1980, Donauwörth

43

Adriana Louvier

Mexican actress

*September 18th, 1980, Mexico City

43

Pablo Ibarluzea

Spanish actor

*September 18th, 1980, Laudio/Llodio

43

Francois Van Coke

South African singer

*September 18th, 1980, Brakpan

43

Dita de Leon

American actress

*September 18th, 1980, Río Piedras

43

Charles Hedger

British musician

*September 18th, 1980, United Kingdom

43

Ilan Araújo Dall'Igna

Brazilian footballer

*September 18th, 1980, Curitiba

43

Ahmed Al-Bahri

Saudi Arabian footballer

*September 18th, 1980, Saudi Arabia

43

Ludovic Assemoassa

Togolese and French footballer

*September 18th, 1980, 3rd arrondissement of Lyon

43

Petri Virtanen

Finnish basketball player

*September 18th, 1980, Jyväskylä

43

Avi Strool

Israeli footballer

*September 18th, 1980, Tel Aviv

43

Mickey Higham

English rugby league footballer

*September 18th, 1980, Higher End

43

Curtiss Cook

American actor

*September 18th, 1980, Dayton

43

Charity Wakefield

British actress

*September 18th, 1980, Royal Tunbridge Wells

43

Adeel Akhtar

British actor

*September 18th, 1980, London

Same Day
Who's birthday is on September 18th?

52

Anna Netrebko

Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano

*September 18th, 1971, Krasnodar

54

Brad Beven

Triathlete

*September 18th, 1969, Mirriwinni

41

Alfredo Talavera

Mexican association football player

*September 18th, 1982, La Barca

52

Lance Armstrong

Cyclist from the United States

*September 18th, 1971, Plano

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

44

Alison Lohman

American actress

*September 18th, 1979, Palm Springs

39

Nina Arianda

American actress

*September 18th, 1984, Manhattan

51

James Gandolfini

American actor (1961–2013)

*September 18th, 1961, Westwood †June 19th, 2013, Rome

74

Peter Shilton

English footballer (born 1949)

*September 18th, 1949, Leicester

45

Billy Eichner

American comedian and actor

*September 18th, 1978, New York City

50

Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

*September 18th, 1973, Welkom

37

Renaud Lavillenie

French pole vaulter

*September 18th, 1986, Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire

42

Han Ye-seul

South Korean actress and model

*September 18th, 1981, Los Angeles

84

Greta Garbo

Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)

*September 18th, 1905, Katarina church parish †April 15th, 1990, New York City

72

Ben Carson

United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021

*September 18th, 1951, Detroit

44

Junichi Inamoto

Japanese association football player

*September 18th, 1979, Kagoshima Prefecture

46

Kieran West

British rower

*September 18th, 1977, Kingston upon Thames

59

Rachid Taha

Franco-Algerian singer

*September 18th, 1958, Sig †September 12th, 2018, Les Lilas

52

Jada Pinkett Smith

American actress (born 1971)

*September 18th, 1971, Baltimore

73

Anna Deavere Smith

American actress, playwright and professor

*September 18th, 1950, Baltimore

Same year
Born in 1980

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

44

Charlie Hunnam

British actor

*April 10th, 1980, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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